Jennifer Bento, REU 2010 alumna, joined the Polymer Program at the UConn Institute of Materials Sciences as a graduate student; she published her first paper: Hire, C. C.; Oyer, A. J.; Macek, G. E.; Bento, J. L.; Adamson, D. H., “Directed formation of silica by a non-peptide block copolymer enzyme mimic” J. Mat. Chem. B, 2013, 1, 1977-1984.

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